skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those books can say it better than me.

I too was once like you: pro West, anti-Putin. On the Ukraine affair way back in 2014, I was outraged that Putin took Crimea etc etc.

So what changed my point of view? Russiagate. That nonsense the Democrat Party propagated about Putin interfering in the election to get Trump elected. I also found out that it wasn't Russian operatives shooting at the Maidan protestors from the top of a building. It was neo Nazi Ukrainians. They are small but ruthless so their influence belies their size. But I should've known better because I already knew about the lies the West told to go war in Iraq in 2003. WMD's in Iraq was a big fat lie. And US Officials went on television and told these lies to the whole world. Knowing they were lies.

So my point? The West does Propaganda too. Stephen Kotkin works for the Hoover Institute. The Hoover Institute has an agenda to promote American "free-market" capitalism around the world.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/hoover-institution/

Have a look at Professors Meersheimer and Stephen Cohen. For an alternative view on the Ukrainian situation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mciLyG9iexE

Why do you dismiss anyone in the West who is against what the West is doing in Ukraine as "Russian mouthpieces"? But you never question whether Western sources as "American Hegemonic" propaganda? Is it not possible for Westerners to look at what is happening in Ukraine and conclude that it is folly?

Surely, you are aware of PNAC? (Project for a New American Century).

>Sovereign countries got fed up with Genocide and aggression at the hands of Russians, who now believe that multipolarity is a rightful green card for unchecked coercion of neighboring countries.
--Gaza? To tell you the truth I'm fed up with American backed Genocide. What has Russia (under Putin) done that is worse than this? Do you not think that what goes on in Gaza is an all time low for the West? Surely you do.
What have we fachidiots read in 2024?
A big part of it is the fact that Meta tries very hard to not lose the relevance against OpenAI, so they keep building and releasing a lot of their models for free. I would imagine they're taking huge losses on these but it's a price they seem to be willing to pay for being late to the party.

The same applies (to smaller extent) to Google, and more recently to Alibaba.

A lot of free (not open-source, mind you) LLMs are either from Meta or built by other smaller outfits by tweaking Meta's LLMs (there are exceptions, like Mistral).

One thing to keep in mind is that while training a model requires A LOT of data, manual intervention, hardware, power, and time, using these LLMs (inference, or forward pass in the neural network) is really not. Right now it typically requires NVidia GPU with lots of VRAM but I have no doubt in just a few months/maybe a year someone will find much easier way to do that without sacrificing the speed.
Honestly a better question would be if there are any social norms that allow for a moral CEO to exist? Pretty much all of our norms are tilted towards producing immoral executives.
https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
Related blog post: https://fishshell.com/blog/rustport/
> This is really a fuckup of the industey if they're even confusing technical people.

Honestly, we're not that great.
It's kinda like calling Hunter S. Thompson a public intellectual back in the 70s. Public yes, opinionated absolutely. Intellectual? Ehhh, stretching it.
Because software is digital and different than the physical world and someone like you understands that. It's intellectually dishonest to pretend otherwise. How hard is it to make a copy of your house including all the things inside of it? Can you remove all personally identifying features from your house with a computer program? Analogies have their limitations and don't always lead to rational conclusions. Physicists had to contend with a lot of those after Stephen Hawking wrote his book about black holes with crazy theories that don't make sense if you know the math behind them.

Downloading a torrent isn't the same thing as going to the record store and physically stealing a CD, and regular people can also understand that there's a difference between the invasiveness of a human being entering your house and someone not doing that. So either people can understand torrenting isn't the same as going into a store a physically stealing something and anonymized crash logs aren't the same thing as a home inspector coming into your house, or Napster and torrenters actually owe the millions that the RIAA and MPAA want them to.

I'm not saying that all tracking is unequivocally good, or even okay, some of it is downright bad. But let's not treat people as idiots who can't tell the difference between the digital and physical realm.
Seriously?

I've not really mentioned ethics, before.

The scorn is for working for one employer for that amount of time.
I don't think this has ever been done on purpose with the explicit goal of anti-urbanism.

However, it's been done a bunch of times accidentally. One really great example: Copenhagen in Denmark. Its population actually decreased after the initial boom, it's only now back up to the levels of early 70-s: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/20894/cope...

As a result, the overall Danish well-being and economics improved compared to neighboring countries. I believe, that this is very much a part of the reason for the "Danish Bumblebee" economy (meaning that it shouldn't be able to fly, but does).

And Copenhagen is routinely scored as one of the best cities on the planet.
Canadian here. The retail price of a 2x4 has fluctuated wildly over the last 18-24 months, mostly disconnected from inflation and due more to global supply chain issues.

At one point my local hardware store in a medium sized city was selling a single 8-foot spruce 2x4 for upwards of $14, when pre-COVID it was probably closer to $4.
Could you elaborate on those flows? Sounds useful. Is it vanilla Emacs?
Can you please hook me up with your dealer
I'm glad to hear there have been big changes. However, there is a more recent accident associated with a Korean operator: Asiana flight 214 crash at SFO in 2013.

The NTSB identified poor crew communication and crew resource management as important factors. Reuters and AFP reported negative repetitional impact to Korean air carriers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214
Mechanically broken? I have never seen a Lightning break or get too loose in years. I’ve used both connectors extensively. USB-C I’ve faced loose female connectors, broken female connector to the degree that it heated up the MacBook because it generated interrupts for kernel to handle. On the male side I’ve seen bent cables and of course even without mechanical failure there are cables that should work and just don’t for different use cases (Charge but no data. Data but no alt mode video.)

We should look at data but USB-C anecdotally have been an order of magnitude worse for me and people around me.
Both this and the OP you responded to are good advice if you aren’t in a situation where you needed a job yesterday.

What about situations where you were laid off and can’t really wait months to get a new one?
> they let their guests say whatever anti-intellectual bs they wanted, without trying to correct the guests

I do not like any of the 2 (even I could say I hate them, in the sense I cannot watch for more than 10 s), but what do you mean with “let they say (…) whatever they want” I mean… is that not right?! Do you expect some kind of sensorship? I mean maybe is what YOU perceived as “anti-intellectual bs” whatever that means for you? Maybe they concur?

Also “try to correct”? Sorry, maybe is a language thing, but “correct” seems to imply the guest said something “wrong”. Is the host always an authority to ”correct” a guest?

I’m really not trying to attack or insult you, I’m just totally perplexed by the comment? I would HATE to see an interview where the host is “correcting” the guest in any color, shape or form.

Maybe I am misinterpreting your reply. Maybe can you give an example of what you think is better, ans show a correction from host to guest, as you would like?
> Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, Lex Friedman, and Sam Harris

One of these is not like the others. It’s funny, in a sad way.
The Quiet Years of Agents
Consider purchasing a better English dictionary. I worked in the ESL/EFL industry for years and never encountered the word rubric as a synonym for category/chapter. It is commonly used to refer to a guideline or rule.
You might be misremembering (it's my fav DB show btw...)

It's not really revealed how he does the last trick. In the last bet she believes she loses because the horse he tips doesn't win - and during the race he reveals there is no system.

However, he places the final bet - not her - and after the race ends she opens the ticket to find it's placed on the winner, not the tipped horse.

Almost certainly it's slight of hand (which he is excellent at) but that is never revealed.
start here and then see where it takes you… https://youtu.be/slgsZnYnF3k?feature=shared

you are almost too funny but I needed a laugh on this fine Sunday
Laura Loomer's credibility isn't the issue. It's already quite well established and non-debatable that despite hypocritically gaslighting and declaring himself a "Free Speech Absolutist", that he is so thin-skinned and anti-free-speech that he shadowbans, demonetizes, and kicks off many many people he doesn't agree with, and promotes and amplifies the White Supremacists and Nazis and racists he does agree with, and he doesn't support anyone's free speech except his own.

The thing about him censoring Laura Loomer only illustrates what a ridiculous point it's gotten to. It's not his censorship and anti-free-speech she's complaining about, it's that it's now to a point that it finally applies to her. She's not against leopards eating people's faces, she's just against leopards eating HER face.

If you still believe Elon Musk supports free speech because you're skeptical of Laura Loomer, you're just as gullible and ignorant and dishonest and unethical as she is.

Of course, just like Musk and Loomer, you're not even arguing in good faith, since your own words prove you obviously didn't read the article. You said "Nothing in the article about account deletions, and nothing but one notorior crank claiming, without evidence, they are being censored.", but right up at the top the article clearly states that THREE people were complaining, and he's deleted or threatened to delete the accounts of several other people and organizations:

>Driving the news: Trump's conspiracy-minded ally Laura Loomer, New York Young Republican Club president Gavin Wax and InfoWars host Owen Shroyer all said their verification badges disappeared after they criticized Musk's support for H-1B visas, railed against Indian culture and attacked Ramaswamy, Musk's DOGE co-chair.

And also:

>He threatened to reassign NPR's account handle last year and marked some links to the site as "unsafe" when users click through.

>Musk also removed the verification badge of The New York Times in 2023.

>X also suspended independent journalist Ken Klippenstein's account after he shared Sen. JD Vance's vetting document from the alleged Iranian hack of Trump's campaign.

And as someone who's not arguing in good faith, you know very well it's absolutely true Elon Musk doesn't support free speech, and the list of people and organizations he's banned or demonetized because he doesn't approve of THEIR free speech goes on and on, and there's nowhere near enough room in a typical article or attention span in a typical reader to list them all. You have a lot of nerve to be that blatantly dishonest in a discussion about ethics.

But you're so intellectually lazy, you didn't even read the article you're facetiously pretending to have read, so don't demand other people write and read exhaustive 50 page well researched detailed articles enumerating every fact and scrap of evidence for you, if you're too lazy to read a one page article yourself. Because you risk embarrassing yourself again by having your own words and the article's words quoted back to you in juxtaposition.
Maybe Hamiltons Pharmacopeia?
There is no guarantee the company will be around to do it. It is usually a better chance with larger companies, but there is no guarantee anywhere.
This is a point too rarely made.

Most work that produces something people are willing to pay for does make the world a better place!

Not enormously so for the vast majority of us, but what one person out of 8 billion can do.
In chemistry, a 'monomer' is a single unit and a 'dimer' a pair.

Haemoglobin in your blood, for example is a 'tetramer' of four separate units (although technically more like ABAB so a dimer of dimers).
Like the author I have my reservations about the USDA guidelines, but can we really blame the obesity epidemic on them? After all - how many people even remotely follow those guidelines?
The leading provider of open models used for local LLM setups is Meta (with the Llama series). They have enormous resources to train these models.

They’re giving away these expensive models because it doesn’t hurt Meta’s ad business but reduces risk that competitors could grow moats using closed models. The old “commoditize your complements” play.
The post you're linking to is not arguing that you should become a tobacco exec, it's arguing that 80k has not sufficiently made the case that a tobacco exec who donated all their income thoughtfully would still be causing net harm.

Reading both articles, I think it depends a lot what strategy the exec employs. If they optimize for getting people to become addicted to smoking or increase how much they smoke (growing the market) then I think it's really unlikely they could donate enough to make up for that enormous harm. On the other hand, if they optimize for increasing profitability by increasing prices and advocating for regulation that acts as barriers to new entrants, and especially if the person who would otherwise have the role would be optimizing for growing the market, then it's likely their work is positive on it's own, regardless of donating.
> Should we just not use computers?

I don't think "should we just give up?" is a reasonable question to anything.
From a casual observer who (used to) mostly lurk, it absolutely does.

Maybe the tide has been turning the past few years but it was endemic from my point of view a decade ago when I first started reading HN.

Folks who didn’t chase career maximization were typically treated like naive children at best. Working for a third of the wages in some flyover state at a boring company vs some adtech company with an options package was panned on the regular.

It was always part of the zeitgeist you switch jobs early and often to maximize your career progression vs. chill with the same company for most of your life.
Carlsen will play in 2024 FIDE WORLD BLITZ [video]
While I agree with your general points,

> These are useful for solving one particular facet: people die from exposure in Toronto.

They are also useful because human beings need shelter, whether or not the exposure is life-threatening. They can't wait for your more ideal solutions.
I don’t see how adding a new syscall to monitor something new via epoll is more desirable than adding a new BSD event filter. Either way, you are modifying the syscall interface. The initial epoll_create() had to be revised with epoll_create1(). It is even cited on slide 53 as being an example of a past design failure:

https://www.man7.org/conf/lpc2014/designing_linux_kernel_API...

Interestingly, the BSD kqueue made the same mistake and had to be revised for the same reason, which is why kqueue1() was made. However, by the points on the technical checklist there for syscall design, kqueue is an excellent design, minus the one mistake of not supporting O_CLOEXEC at the beginning.
Have you used Bluesky? I’ve been on it since it was invite only and I don’t see any politics on my feed. It’s basically just posts from friends, friends of friends, and artists for me.

Bluesky seems the least pushy with rage bait content of all the social media’s.
Since when is Lex Fridman considered a conservative right-wing? Did something actually change or is this a new label from lefters because he interviewed Trump?
Show HN: First Orbit stable version to build any kind of radial UI with CSS only
Orbit CSS reached its V.1.0.0 and it is finally stable. Hope you find it useful and easy to use.

In the doc site (https://zumerlab.github.io/orbit-docs/) you can play with a multilevel piemenu

...and explore potencial use cases covered in examples:
- Progress bars
- Charts (e.g., pie charts, multi-level pies, sunburst charts)
- Gauges
- Knobs
- Pie menus
- Watch faces
- Sci-fi art
- Chemical structures
- Calendars
- Dashboards
- Mandalas

Whatever, have a good 2025!!
A student in my university and friend of mine wrote their Bachelor's thesis on recovering BEESAT-1, the first CubeSat launched by the TU Berlin back in 2009, after it was rendered inoperable due to some unfortunate circumstances. I vividly remember the moment when they executed the fix in orbit and it worked, they were jumping up and down in happiness. While I knew about this whole ordeal, I also found about the fun technical details while watching the 38C3 talk.

Happy to answer or forward any questions about nanosatellites, software in space, etc!
> Americans: we're not anti you, we just want to overthrow your government and install a puppet.

I don't think Americans want a puppet government. We'd be perfectly happy if they just stopped the IP theft, spying, and maybe treated the Chinese people better. Kind of a shame when you can be thrown in prison just for saying your government did something wrong, or trying to look up history like Tiananmen Square.
Going off a tangent, I wonder if the market reveals survival bias: companies and products that did respect privacy practice (e.g. by asking explicit permission) were not able to harness enough user data to compete with other bad players, and as a result, any company would eventually end up like Facebook or go out of business.

Sadly privacy is not a marketable feature, or at least it does not have the ROI as Apple originally believed. I feel the only way to level the play field is to reconsider our regulation framework and treat privacy as a fundamental benefit for consumers.
I love Dwarkesh's guests.

My problem with this podcast, is that the host talks too fast.

I have found this rushed "fast" talking amongst westerners, but few seem to complain about it. Any one else experience this?
> The argument is roughly that “the west” and “western morality” are critical institutions to be protected, and refusing to protect them is immoral.

"The West" as a collective lost all of the moral high ground it was supposed to have during the past few decades and particularly last year.

https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/the-moral-bankruptcy-of-t...
It's quite common in India but I guess not widely accepted internationally. If there can be deletion, then why not updation?
Too long with respect to what practical requirements? It’s still shorter than the usual hex representation of a full Git hash for example, and I don’t see calls to encode those as Base58. The dashes also make for a more readable structure.
They sold XScale to Marvell which ironically has a higher market cap than Intel.
The advice is probably to promptly ping obvious connections (which is what I did when I was laid off and it worked out). Failing that, depending on financial situation, either do unpaid work or become a barista.
Thanks.

Then it seems like there are more similarities than differences here: Both solve the same problem
of “select” by being the central (kernel-level) events queue; though with different APIs.

The other bit that caught my eye was the author saying epoll can do nearly everything kqueue can do.

What is that slight bit that epoll can’t do?
Good models are good enough for me, meta_x_ai, I gain experience by setting them up and following up on industry trends, and I don't trust OpenAI (or MSFT, or Google, or whatever) with my information. No, I do not do anything illegal or unethical, but it's not the point.
curiosity-joined a month ago, 90% of discover feed is politics
The trick is, you don't really need anything. Just find a good place and settle there. The US has all the infrastructure needed for that.
I don't see why the nature of truth is relevant here, unless you are claiming that we can't make deductive arguments about anything ever (I never used the word "truth" in my comment anyway). Also, constant accusations of "bad faith", i.e. dishonesty, are poor debate etiquette and just give the impression that you have no point to make on the object level.
i usually value component diagrams more than normalized databases plans etc — not every system uses a database!

chuck some blocks into diagrams.net, sketch out the information flow at a high level, then go implement it.

i find it often helps factoring the code a bit earlier, meaning the prototype looks … less like a prototype in the code =p

also can be faster to move around blocks in a diagrams.net diagram than it is to refactor large swathes of the underlying code related to those blocks.
> The explanation is that Intel didn't just fill in the five missing table entries with the correct value of 2. Instead, Intel filled all the unused table entries with 2.

I wonder why they didn't do this in the first place.
Everyone loves helping kin except when helping kin on the public dime. Morals are funny that way.
"No more regime change wars" is literally accused of being a populist slogan.
@kragen

You are trolling me every time I post about these issues. I have no interest whatsoever in anything you have to say.

You are right. I am wrong.

Happy now?
These issues are all addressed in the Apple blog post that talks about how this feature is implemented. Two steps are taken to deal with these risks:

1) iOS creates additional fake queries, and all queries pass through scheduler that ensures you can use time-of-lookup to either discriminate real queries from fake queries, or identify when a photo was taken.

2) All queries are performed anonymously, with the use of a third party relaying service. So there’s no way for Apple to tie a specific query back to a specific device, or even IP address.

Between those two mitigating features. Getting hold of an individuals personal data using this feature requires you to first compromise the targets phone, to disable the fake queries. Then compromise the relaying party to correlate queries back to a specific IP address.

If you can manage all that, then quite frankly you’re a fool for expending all that effort. When you could just use your iOS compromise to have the device send you its location data directly. No need to faff about waiting for your target to take photos, then track multiple landmark lookups, carefully collecting a few bits of additional data per query, until you finally have enough to identify the location of your target or targets.

The whole thing reminds me of XKCD 538.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/homomorphic-encry...
Expectation in a water ditch is the plane breaks up and everyone either dies on impact or dies of hypothermia or drowns.

> Had they known what was going to happen they’d likely have chosen some other option.

Yeah, absolutely.
And so do several U.K. high street banks, written in COBOL for the PDP-11, run via an emulation layer of an AS/400, last I stuck my head into that particular hell, and I doubt much has changed.
Anybody interested in taking drugs they’ve cooked up should familiarize themselves with MPTP/MPP+

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPTP
Weather is nice in Manhattan today.